The great news for the Stanford women's basketball team is a trip to Hawaii this weekend. The not-so-great news is that the Cardinal are playing Baylor and Brittney Griner again, this time without Nneka Ogwumike.

In last season's NCAA semifinals, the Cardinal kept two, sometimes three players, on Griner, the 6-foot-8 center who was national player of the year. Griner was held to 13 points, but the Bears won 59-47 on their way to the national title. Ogwumike had 22 points and nine rebounds in her collegiate finale.

No. 4 Stanford (2-0) no doubt will try the same approach in Friday's 4:30 p.m. game in the Rainbow Wahine Classic at Honolulu's Stan Sheriff Center. But No. 1 Baylor (2-0) has other talented players, most notably All-America point guard Odyssey Sims.

"Our team is excited about it," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "It's not like you're going to end your season with one game. It'll be a game where we'll learn a lot about ourselves, and it's a win-win. If you win the game, great, and if you don't win the game, it's great because you played them."

Stanford is getting 22.5 points and 12.0 rebounds on average from Chiney Ogwumike, 19.5 points and 6.0 rebounds from Josyln Tinkle and 16.0 points and 5.5 assists from point guard Amber Orrange.

"We have our 'big three,' and we need it to be four, five, six or seven," VanDerveer said. "We need really major contributions from a lot of people."